MGCI Student Vote: Provincial Election Nov. 7 2011

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Mr. K's class administering election

Three Grade 10 Students in Charge

Eric (Deputy Returning Officer)
Rhema
Meghan

Thursday Sept. 22/2011
Student Vote Launch for the Provincial Election Launched from Marion Graham LRC
Saskatchewan Minister of Education Donna Harpauer and Head of Student Vote Taylor Gunn from Toronto in Attendance

Tuesday Nov.1/2011
Gordon Wyant Saskatchewan Party candidate and incumbent MLA for the riding of Saskatoon Northwest (SK-47) speaks in LRC conference room with Mr K's and Mr S's History 10 classes.

Friday November 4/2011
Nicole White New Democratic Party candidate for the riding of Saskatoon Northwest (SK-47) speaks in LRC conference room with Mr. K's and Mr. S's History 10 classes.
Afternoon advanced polls open for voting from 12:45 to 1:10 and 3:15 to 3:40.
12 votes cast: 7 for Gordon Wyant representing the Saskatchewan Party; 3 for Nicole White Representing the N.D.P. Party; 2 for Luke Bonsan representing the Green Party; 0 for Eric Steiner representing the Liberal Party; 0 spoiled or rejected Ballots.

Monday Nov. 7
Student Voting from 8:15 am to 3:30

Rejected or spoiled Ballots: 9

148-9 = 139

Votes By Grade at Marion Graham:

Grade 9: 18
Grade 10: 55
Grade 11: 42
Grade 12: 29

Total:148

The following is what Student Vote posted after we informed them our election results:
Within the the postings there are statements and questions we would like you to address under the "Discussion" heading of the Wiki.

Marion M. Graham Collegiate

• School Info
• Past Participation
• Voting Info

EXCEL||~ Electoral District (click for details)

Candidate	Party	Grades 1-8	Grades 9-12	Total
Saskatoon Northwest	Luke Bonsan	Green Party of Saskatchewan		36	36
Saskatoon Northwest	Eric Steiner	Saskatchewan Liberal Association		10	10
Saskatoon Northwest	Nicole White	New Democratic Party, Sask. Section		23	23
Saskatoon Northwest	Gordon Wyant	Saskatchewan Party		70	70

Saskatoon Northwest

• Summary
• Adult Results
• Grades 1-9
• Grades 10-12

Grades 9-12

Votes

		4 Candidates		Candidate	Party	Total Votes	% Vote
	Eric Steiner	Saskatchewan Liberal Association	10	7.19
ELECTED	Gordon Wyant	Saskatchewan Party	70	50.36
	Luke Bonsan	Green Party of Saskatchewan	36	25.90
	Nicole White	New Democratic Party, Sask. Section	23	16.55
	Total Votes		139			1 schools registered | 1 returning	School (click for details)	Ballots requested	Total Votes
Marion M. Graham Collegiate	725	139

What can you conclude or insightfully question from the above statistics coming from Marion Graham's participation in Student Vote?
Give evidence and reasoning for your conclusions and/or insightful questions?

Saskatoon Northwest

• Summary
• Adult Results
• Grades 1-9
• Grades 10-12

District Summary (Compare & Contrast Marion Graham Results with these results that combined MGCI votes with the surrounding Elementary Schools)

Votes

		4 Candidates EXCEL		Candidate	Party	Total Votes	% Vote
	Eric Steiner	Saskatchewan Liberal Party	23	7.01
ELECTED	Gordon Wyant	Saskatchewan Party	177	53.96
	Luke Bonsan	Green Party	60	18.29
	Nicole White	N.D.P.	68	20.73
	Total Votes		328			5 schools registered | 5 returning EXCEL	School (click for details)	Ballots requested	Total Votes
Marion M. Graham Collegiate	725	139
St. Angela Elementary	23	22
St. George Elementary	74	71
Silverwood Heights Elementary	120	74
Brownell Elementary	27	22

Adult Summary for Saskatoon Northwest (Find the Error in this following Graph)

Compare and Contrast Student Votes for Saskatoon Northwest with those of the actual adult provincial election. Do the same for the neighbouring district of Saskatoon Meewasin. What do you think accounts for the differences or similarities in the numbers between the two neighbouring districts?

Votes

4 Candidates

	Candidate	Party	Adult Votes	% of vote
	Eric Steiner	Saskatchewan Liberal Association	135	2.02%
ELECTED	Gordon Wyant	Saskatchewan Party	4683	70.14%
	Luke Bonsan	Green Party of Saskatchewan	153	2.29%
	Nicole White	New Democratic Party, Sask. Section	1706	25.55%
	Total Votes		6677

Seats

Votes

EXCEL	District	Total Votes	Elected	Schools Registered	School Returning
Arm River-Watrous	259	Greg Brkich (Saskatchewan Party)	6	5
Athabasca	132	Buckley H. Belanger (N.D.P.)	3	2
Batoche	382	Delbert Kirsch (Saskatchewan Party)	9	7
Biggar	364	Randy Weekes (Saskatchewan Party)	6	6
Cannington	341	Dan D'Autremont (Saskatchewan Party)	7	5
Canora-Pelly	207	Ken Krawetz (Saskatchewan Party)	5	4
Carrot River Valley	549	Fred F. Bradshaw (Saskatchewan Party)	8	6
Cumberland	391	Doyle Vermette (N.D.P.)	2	2
Cut Knife-Turtleford	233	Larry Doke (Saskatchewan Party)	7	3
Cypress Hills	440	Wayne Elhard (Saskatchewan Party)	13	8
Estevan	473	Doreen Eagles (Saskatchewan Party)	9	9
Humboldt	370	Donna Harpauer (Saskatchewan Party)	8	6
Indian Head-Milestone	498	Don McMorris (Saskatchewan Party)	10	8
Kelvington-Wadena	354	June Draude (Saskatchewan Party)	12	7
Kindersley	588	Bill Boyd (Saskatchewan Party)	9	8
Last Mountain-Touchwood	404	Glen Hart (Saskatchewan Party)	11	7
Lloydminster	271	Tim McMillan (Saskatchewan Party)	3	3
Martensville	312	Nancy Heppner (Saskatchewan Party)	6	6
Meadow Lake	253	Jeremy Harrison (Saskatchewan Party)	4	3
Melfort	525	Kevin Phillips (Saskatchewan Party)	8	6
Melville-Saltcoats	143	Bob Bjornerud (Saskatchewan Party)	8	5
Moose Jaw North	685	Warren Michelson (Saskatchewan Party)	8	4
Moose Jaw Wakamow	180	Greg Lawrence (Saskatchewan Party)	6	4
Moosomin	188	Don Toth (Saskatchewan Party)	5	5
Prince Albert Carlton	943	Darryl Hickie (Saskatchewan Party)	7	5
Prince Albert Northcote	450	Darcy Furber (N.D.P.)	8	7
Regina Coronation Park	226	Jaime Garcia (N.D.P.)	7	6
Regina Dewdney	514	Kevin Yates (N.D.P.)	7	6
Regina Douglas Park	67	Dwain Lingenfelter (N.D.P.)	4	3
Regina Elphinstone-Centre	61	Bill Stevenson (Saskatchewan Party)	2	1
Regina Lakeview	158	John Nilson (N.D.P.)	4	4
Regina Northeast	120	Kevin Doherty (Saskatchewan Party)	5	3
Regina Qu'Appelle Valley	371	Laura Ross (Saskatchewan Party)	5	5
Regina Rosemont	2	Trent Wotherspoon (N.D.P.)	1	1
Regina South	219	Bill Hutchinson (Saskatchewan Party)	6	4
Regina Walsh Acres	256	Warren Steinley (Saskatchewan Party)	4	4
Regina Wascana Plains	268	Christine Tell (Saskatchewan Party)	6	6
Rosetown-Elrose	780	James Reiter (Saskatchewan Party)	8	7
Rosthern-Shelbrook	408	Scott Moe (Saskatchewan Party)	8	8
Saskatchewan Rivers	132	Nadine Wilson (Saskatchewan Party)	4	3
Saskatoon Centre		Undeclared	3	0
Saskatoon Eastview	274	Judy Junor (N.D.P.)	6	4
Saskatoon Fairview	173	Jennifer Campeau (Saskatchewan Party)	3	3
Saskatoon Greystone	338	Rob Norris (Saskatchewan Party)	6	5
Saskatoon Massey Place	122	Cam Broten (N.D.P.)	3	2
Saskatoon Meewasin	372	Roger Parent (Saskatchewan Party)	5	5
Saskatoon Northwest	328	Gordon Wyant (Saskatchewan Party)	5	5
Saskatoon Nutana	389	Zoria Broughton (Saskatchewan Party)	4	3
Saskatoon Riversdale	222	Danielle Chartier (N.D.P.)	6	5
Saskatoon Silver Springs	124	Cindy Lee Sherban (N.D.P.)	2	2
Saskatoon Southeast	41	Don Morgan (Saskatchewan Party)	2	2
Saskatoon Sutherland	113	Paul Merriman (Saskatchewan Party)	2	2
Swift Current	730	Brad Wall (Saskatchewan Party)	7	7
The Battlefords	812	Herb Cox (Saskatchewan Party)	9	7
Thunder Creek	426	Lyle Stewart (Saskatchewan Party)	9	8
Weyburn-Big Muddy	484	Dustin Duncan (Saskatchewan Party)	9	8
Wood River	364	D.F. (Yogi) Huyghebaert (Saskatchewan Party)	9	9
Yorkton	752	Greg Ottenbreit (Saskatchewan Party)	6	6
EXCEL	Party	Candidates	Seats	Votes	% of vote
Green Party	58	0	3000	15.32%
N.D.P.	58	12	5513	28.15%
No Affiliation	1	0	11	0.06%
P.C. Party of Sask.	5	0	139	0.71%
Saskatchewan Liberal Party	9	0	317	1.62%
Saskatchewan Party	58	45	10580	54.03%
Western Independence Party, W.I.P.	2	0	21	0.11%
	191	57	19581
Rejected
			420

Compare and Contrast the above Student Vote Results for the entire province to the results of the official provincial adult vote below.
How and why were the number of seats won similar or different? What about percentage of votes?
What do you think can explain the similarities and or differences in the numbers?

			6	6
Adult Results for Entire Province	Seats	Votes

Results by electoral district	District	Total Votes	Elected
Arm River-Watrous	6807	Greg Brkich (Saskatchewan Party)
Athabasca	2927	Buckley H. Belanger (N.D.P.)
Batoche	6883	Delbert Kirsch (Saskatchewan Party)
Biggar	6532	Randy Weekes (Saskatchewan Party)
Cannington	6237	Dan D'Autremont (Saskatchewan Party)
Canora-Pelly	6056	Ken Krawetz (Saskatchewan Party)
Carrot River Valley	6444	Fred F. Bradshaw (Saskatchewan Party)
Cumberland	5148	Doyle Vermette (N.D.P.)
Cut Knife-Turtleford	6230	Larry Doke (Saskatchewan Party)
Cypress Hills	6091	Wayne Elhard (Saskatchewan Party)
Estevan	6062	Doreen Eagles (Saskatchewan Party)
Humboldt	7709	Donna Harpauer (Saskatchewan Party)
Indian Head-Milestone	7475	Don McMorris (Saskatchewan Party)
Kelvington-Wadena	6417	June Draude (Saskatchewan Party)
Kindersley	5589	Bill Boyd (Saskatchewan Party)
Last Mountain-Touchwood	6982	Glen Hart (Saskatchewan Party)
Lloydminster	4179	Tim McMillan (Saskatchewan Party)
Martensville	8180	Nancy Heppner (Saskatchewan Party)
Meadow Lake	6736	Jeremy Harrison (Saskatchewan Party)
Melfort	6374	Kevin Phillips (Saskatchewan Party)
Melville-Saltcoats	6870	Bob Bjornerud (Saskatchewan Party)
Moose Jaw North	7571	Warren Michelson (Saskatchewan Party)
Moose Jaw Wakamow	6083	Greg Lawrence (Saskatchewan Party)
Moosomin	6189	Don Toth (Saskatchewan Party)
Prince Albert Carlton	6992	Darryl Hickie (Saskatchewan Party)
Prince Albert Northcote	5518	Victoria Jurgens (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Coronation Park	6217	Mark Docherty (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Dewdney	7227	Gene Makowsky (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Douglas Park	8386	Russ Marchuk (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Elphinstone-Centre	4420	Warren McCall (N.D.P.)
Regina Lakeview	7979	John Nilson (N.D.P.)
Regina Northeast	6828	Kevin Doherty (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Qu'Appelle Valley	9802	Laura Ross (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Rosemont	6449	Trent Wotherspoon (N.D.P.)
Regina South	8147	Bill Hutchinson (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Walsh Acres	6268	Warren Steinley (Saskatchewan Party)
Regina Wascana Plains	10619	Christine Tell (Saskatchewan Party)
Rosetown-Elrose	6929	James Reiter (Saskatchewan Party)
Rosthern-Shelbrook	6786	Scott Moe (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatchewan Rivers	7105	Nadine Wilson (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Centre	5091	David Forbes (N.D.P.)
Saskatoon Eastview	8903	Corey Tochor (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Fairview	5151	Jennifer Campeau (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Greystone	8119	Rob Norris (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Massey Place	7034	Cam Broten (N.D.P.)
Saskatoon Meewasin	6988	Roger Parent (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Northwest	6677	Gordon Wyant (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Nutana	7516	Cathy Sproule (N.D.P.)
Saskatoon Riversdale	5099	Danielle Chartier (N.D.P.)
Saskatoon Silver Springs	10249	Ken Cheveldayoff (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Southeast	10544	Don Morgan (Saskatchewan Party)
Saskatoon Sutherland	6792	Paul Merriman (Saskatchewan Party)
Swift Current	7345	Brad Wall (Saskatchewan Party)
The Battlefords	6821	Herb Cox (Saskatchewan Party)
Thunder Creek	7348	Lyle Stewart (Saskatchewan Party)
Weyburn-Big Muddy	6792	Dustin Duncan (Saskatchewan Party)
Wood River	6406	D.F. (Yogi) Huyghebaert (Saskatchewan Party)
Yorkton	7406	Greg Ottenbreit (Saskatchewan Party)
	397724	58		Results by party	Party	Candidates	Seats	Votes	% of vote
Green Party of Saskatchewan	58	0	11466	2.88%
New Democratic Party, Sask. Section	58	9	127192	31.98%
No Affiliation	1	0	44	0.01%
Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan	5	0	1345	0.34%
Saskatchewan Liberal Association	9	0	2200	0.55%
Saskatchewan Party	58	49	255418	64.22%
Western Independence Party of Saskatchewan (W.I.P.)	2	0	59	0.01%
	191	58	397724				19581	57	355	285		EX

Summary
1. Was participating in student vote a worthwhile endeavor? Why or Why Not?
2. What did we do well regarding student vote? How could we improve student vote for the future?
3. Based on your comparisons and contrasts what can you conclude from the two elections? (Student Vote Provincial Election and the Official Provincial Election)
4. Explain how the results could cause you to have hopes and/or concerns for Saskatchewan's
political,economic,and social future.